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By Win PuseySpecial to

The Ellsworth AmericanBLUE HILL — Realizing

the original architecture of Western music is a challenge, but the ensemble Blue Hill Bach does just that — re-cre-ate the music of Bach and his contemporaries as they them-selves would have played it.

In an age of exploding

sound technology, the rare experience of gut-stringed violins, boxwood oboes and

the pluck of a harpsichord seems to have special appeal. Together with singers skilled in the nuances of Baroque performance, the musical house of Bach takes on shape and style.

Blue Hill Bach will off er that experience in the form of three concerts in three dif-ferent venues from Th ursday-Saturday, July 24 to July 26.

Th e fi rst concert, “Gloria at St. Francis,” highlighting works by Vivaldi, J. S. Bach and Zelenka, starts at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 24, at St. Francis-by-the-Sea Episco-pal Church in Blue Hill. The church is known for its Karl Wilhelm tracker organ.

Marcia Gronewold Sly, Blue Hill Bach’s executive director, foresees “a week of exhilarating music-making, as the amazing musicians in the ensemble gather to rehearse and perform together again this summer.”

Michael and Julia McVaugh, who recently became summer residents of Blue Hill, took in last year’s

By Madalyne BirdELLSWORTH — Have you picked up or

seen a bouquet of fl owers at a random place around town lately?

If you have, those mystery arrangements are called “Lonely Bouquets.”

NewLand Florist, part of the NewLand Nursery in Ellsworth, has been leaving these bouquets in public places around the shire-town with a tag that says, “Adopt me, please!”

Th e Lonely Bouquet is an international cause — its purpose is to cheer up a perfect stranger’s face.

Th e movement began in England and has since swept diff erent parts of the world. Th e idea is simple: to put a smile on the face of its recipient or someone they might know.

Marie Patterson, the fl oral manager at NewLand, creates most of these fl ower arrangements herself. If she doesn’t, the bou-

quet-making falls to “whoever wants to be creative.”

Th e bouquets include a mixture of seasonal

fl owers. Carnations,

ELLSWORTH AMERICAN PHOTO BY MADALYNE BIRD

Marie Patterson, fl oral manager at New-Land Florist, creates most of the Lonely Bouquets.

Make Them Smile

Mystery Bouquets Left to Lift Spirits

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Arts & Leisure

Hear This!

ELLSWORTH AMERICAN PHOTOS BY MADALYNE BIRD

From left , Jude Ziliak, John Finney, Lorna Stephens and Ellenore Tarr rehearse at the home of Niki Lawton in South Blue Hill.

Coming UpWhat: Blue Hill Bach, a Baroque music festivalWhen: Thursday-Saturday, July 24-26 “Gloria at St. Francis:” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 24, St. Francis-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church “Acis al Fresco:” 5 p.m. Friday, July 25. An outdoor

concert, featuring Handel’s opera “Acis and Galatea,” at Kalmia Knoll cottage on Parker Point Road.

“Festival Finale,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill. Concert will feature works by J.S. Bach and Vivaldi.

How much: Advance tickets for all three concerts cost $75. Send checks to: Blue Hill Bach, P.O. Box 428, Blue Hill, ME 04614.

Contact: (540) 539-5880, www. Bluehillbach.org.

From left musicians Ellenore Tarr, Lorna Stephens and Jude Ziliak take a break in the shade. Stephens and Tarr will sing the duet, “Laudamus te” in the “Vivaldi Gloria” concert on July 24 at St. Francis by-the-Sea Church Epis-copal Church.

Baroque Music Celebrated at Blue Hill Fest

Ragtime Music and Raffl e

Under the tent at R.F. Jordan & Sons

Water Street,Ellsworth

All proceeds benefi t local Rotary Scholarships and

Charities

Ellsworth R tary Club 52nd Annual

Saturday, July 26, 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.Sponsored by $500/ $300Children

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By Jacqueline WeaverGOULDSBORO — Pho-

tographer Dean Kotula says images he captured while in India and Th ailand for nearly three months this winter will both enchant and disturb.

He is exhibiting several of his carefully selected photo-

graphs beginning Saturday, July 26, at his Salty Dog Gal-lery in the Gouldsboro village of Prospect Harbor.

An opening reception will be held July 26 from 3-5 p.m.

“Some of the images are magical and some are

By Julia BushELLSWORTH —

Th e fi rst time Noel Paul Stookey played at Th e Grand Auditorium, he was paid in theater seats — 18 of them.

“It wasn’t premeditated, but I did an event for Th e Grand and asked them what happened to the seats they had taken out of the fi rst couple of rows,” Stookey said. “Th ey said, ‘You want them? You can have them!’”

Now, about 40 years later, the tall, bearded singer and songwriter known as “Paul” from the famed folk music group Peter, Paul and Mary is headed back to downtown

Sing Out!Folk Musician Strives to Stir

Minds and Hearts

Noel Paul Stookey, for-merly of the 1960s trio Peter, Paul and Mary, returns to Th e Grand at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 20.

PHOTO BY DEAN KOTULA

Elephant handlers, called Mahouts, bathe their charges in Jaipur, India.

Incredible MomentsSoutheast Asia Focus of Photography Show

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STONINGTON — Sedgwick fi lmmaker Richard Kane’s acclaimed documentary “Jon Imber’s Left Hand,” profi ling the late artist Jon Imber and how he faced his condition ofAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), will be shown at 6 and 8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 22, at Stonington Opera House.

“There’s something breathless, and

Above left , husband and wife Jon Imber and Jill Hoy are the focus of Maine Masters’ “Jon Imber’s Left Hand” screening Tuesday, July 22, at Stonington Opera House. Left , Jon

Imber produced more than 100 oil portraits of friends and acquaintances aft er being diagnosed with the degenerative Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The Art of LivingHow Artist Jon Imber Defi ed Disease in Battle to Create

MAINE MASTERS PHOTO BY RICHARD KANE

PHOTOS BY JEFF DWORKSI

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disturbing,” said Kotula, who began his photographic jour-ney Feb. 11 and returned home May 1.

In Th ailand, where Kotula lived for two years as a child, he visited the Friends of the Asian Elephant hospital in Lampang.

“Th is is a place where they

Ellsworth on July 20 to per-form a benefi t concert.

Aft er the show, Stookey will host a reception at Th e Cel-lar bistro farther down Main Street in downtown Ellsworth.

“I’ve always been so pleased to know I’m in the presence of listeners,” Stookey said.

Th e majority of the folk singer’s lineup will include new material, like “Familia del Corazon,” a song he wrote about immigration issues and performed recently in Dallas.

A folk audience, he said, is unique in that listeners expect to hear music that comments on present issues — they’re not just looking for a nostal-gia-fest celebrating the clas-sics.

It wouldn’t be a Stookey concert without a rendition of “Blowin’ in the Wind,” though. Th e classic songs he spent 50 years performing with the trio will be peppered among new tunes.

Th e social justice issues Peter, Paul and Mary wrote about back in the day are old-school, like the push for civil rights in the ’60s or the fi ght against the Vietnam War in the ’70s. Th e trio famously performed “If I Had a Ham-mer” at the 1963 March on Washington. But the dated framework doesn’t make the lyrics they crooned in perfect harmony any less relevant

today, the folk singer said. “Th e wars still continue,”

Stookey said. “Th e disrespect between races continues.”

Th e guitarist is forging ahead as an advocate for social change. He brings his music to philanthropic organizations like Hugworks, a music ther-apy program, and the Music for Life Foundation, which supports young musicians.

Th e singer and his wife, Betty Stookey, who is an ordained minister, host “One Light, Many Candles” presen-tations all over the country. Th e two incorporate Noel Paul Stookey’s music with passages from holy books, like the Torah, the Quran or the Bible.

Between engagements, the couple retreat to their home in Blue Hill, where they moved in 1970 to give their kids the same “country experience” they had while growing up.

“Betty and I came out to Maine just following our

hearts,” Noel Paul Stookey said.

Once they relocated, the couple discovered all kinds of hidden links to the area.

“We met all these people who know our parents and all these connections that were not at the surface when we moved to Blue Hill,” Stookey said. “If you follow your heart, aft er you’ve made the deci-sion, you’ll discover there is a reason you made the decision that you didn’t know at the time.”

He’s clearly adjusted well to life in Maine. Th e singer has a usual order at the Riverside Café in downtown Ellsworth (a turkey club on whole wheat toast with a slice of raw onion and a chocolate Pepsi). He works in a henhouse-turned-recording-studio, which was the only spot that caught his imagination on the search for property up and down every peninsula from Camden to Eastport.

Th e guitarist is an avid golfer between traveling and performances. He doesn’t have plans to quit working anytime soon, though.

“I’ll stop when I run out of things to say,” the guitarist said.

His message? “Th ey had it right in the

’70s and they walked right by it,” Noel Paul Stookey said. “It really is all about love.”

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What: Exhibit of photo-graphs taken in India and Thailand

Who: Award-winning pho-tographer Dean Kotula

When: Opening reception, Saturday, July 26

Where: Salty Dog Gallery, 173 Main St., Prospect Harbor

Incredible Moments

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Sing Out!

“Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry” is an initiative between Maine State Poet Laureate Wesley McNair and the Writers & Publishers Alliance. Ques-tions about submitting to “Take Heart” may be directed to Special Consultant Gibson-Fay Le Blanc to the poet laureate, at 228-8263 or mainepoetlaureate@gmail.com.

Take HeartA Conversation in Poetry

Editor’s Note: Poet Megan Grumbling writes that today’s poem “retells one of the many stories told to me by a beloved neighbor from my hometown in Wells, a certain sly old Maine woodsman I knew as Booker.” In this story about a hunting trip, Booker off ers advice to an unusual companion.

“Some Kind of Hunter”By Megan Grumbling

He coaxed a pregnant woman right across the river, and it weren’t no easy bridge.A cousin of an in-law, broke as dirt,she come up visiting from Vermont too poorto buy a license. Booker paid it, set a rifl e in her hands, and took her upto Perkinstown, the brook side, where they comeupon this bridge, just beams and cables, rough.Full six months big, a borrowed gun; to her,that span, it looked like one hell of a stuntwhen Booker brought her up to it, said, Look,you’ve gotta cross that river on them wires.Now, Booker’s gone these routes, matters of course,for quite a while, and spares no care or feat —hauls moose out of the woods in split canoes,checks hoofprints in the gravel pit’s pale sandmost every morning, seeing where they cross.A deer makes no more noise than shadow does,he told his novice kin, and knows the soundby going over into silence, deep, and back,more than a couple times. So when he ledthis woman, large with child, up to the bridge,and she replied, Oh no – I can’t do that,he tried to make her see the other side.You gotta, Booker said, or else what kindof hunter are you? Well, that settled things.Th eir bridge stretched lean but held, across the way.She took hold of the cables, hand to steel,and cradling that gun close, she went across.

take care of sick elephants that have had their legs blown off in landmines in northern Th ailand,” Kotula said. “Th e hospital makes prosthetic legs for them.”

In India, he traveled from Rajasthan to Calcutta, where he met a young boy he has been sponsoring through Children International.

Aft er spending time with the youngster and his fam-ily, Kotula traveled to coastal Kerala in southern India, where he said he spent the bulk of his time.

Although his photogra-phy covered a range of sub-jects, Kotula said his primary emphasis continues to be commercial fi shing.

Kotula said he had not been to Th ailand since 1990 and found its cities have changed dramatically with more retail stores, traffi c and pollution.

It was his third visit to India.

“I left wondering if I had changed more than India had,” he said. “You see change in the major cities. All we hear about is their high-tech industry, but throughout the country it is still very low-tech, more like the 1930s.”

Kotula said he took thou-sands of digital images dur-ing his trip and shot 36 rolls of fi lm.

“It’s been hard to edit because it’s hard for me to get away from the experience while still looking for the artistic elements,” he said.

Kotula said he is off ering a 10 percent discount on the framed and unframed images he is selling the opening day of the exhibit.

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breathtaking, about the dex-terity and daring of Imber’s brushwork; it recalls 18th century Japanese Zen paint-ing, which abandoned control for capturing the spirit of the moment,” wrote Boston Globe writer Cate McQuaid about “Jon Imber’s Left Hand.”

Imber was diagnosed with the degenerative disease, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in 2012. He died on April 17 at his winter home in Somerville, Mass.

The Art of LivingImber had come to Maine

on “painting vacations” for years. Born on Long Island, N.Y., he earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell Univer-sity. A year aft er receiving an MFA from Boston University in 1977, he was given his fi rst big show at Brandeis Univer-sity’s Rose Art Museum. He went on to exhibit at Nielsen Gallery, one of Boston’s top gal-leries, and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Mass Art and Har-vard (for 27 years).

Aft er being diagnosed with ALS, Imber set out on a quest to paint as much as he could while he could. Last year, he lost the use of fi rst his right hand, then the left . Rather than give up, he used a spe-cially adapted brush, holding it in one hand and steadying it with the other then guid-ing the brush with thrusts that begin at his feet and move up through his whole body.

Imber, in an interview with Maine arts writer Carl Little, said last summer that he had never felt better about himself as an artist.

“Make sure the curator at the Louvre Museum reads this story,” he said, only partly in jest. 

“Jon Imber’s Left Hand” is just as much about Imber’s wife and fellow artist Jill Hoy. Th e fi lm focuses closely on Imber and Hoy’s summer of 2013 when Imber painted more than 100 portraits of friends and acquaintances who stopped by his studio daily.

Th e fi lm is the newest in the Maine Masters series pro-duced by the Union of Maine Visual Artists. Th ere will be a talk-back aft er the 8 p.m. screening.

Tickets cost $8 per person and are available at the door and in advance at www.opera-housearts.org.

For more info, call 367-2788.

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Desert Islander and Ellsworth American and former state senator. 244-5036.

STONINGTONKneisel Hall Concert, 7 p.m., Burnt Cove Church. 367-2788, www.operahousearts.org.

TheaterAcadia Repertory Theatre, “The School for Wives,” July 15-27, Masonic Hall, Somesville. Tuesdays through Sundays 8:15 p.m.; fi nal performance of each show is a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee. $25; $20 seniors/students/military; $12 children. Children’s Performance, “Puss in Boots,” Wednesdays and Sat-urdays through Aug. 30, 10:30 a.m. Adults $9; children $6. 244-7260, www.acadiarep.com. New Surry Theatre, Rogers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel,” July 17-19, 24-26 & 31; Aug.

1-2, 7 p.m.; July 27, 3 p.m., Blue Hill Town Hall Theater. $22; students $18; seniors $15. 200-4720, www.newsurrytheatre.org.“Romeo & Juliet,”, July 17 & 19, 7 p.m.; July 12, 2 p.m. Stonington Opera House. Reserved seating $35; general $25. 367-2788, www.opera-housearts.org.“Romeo & Juliet & Zombies,” July 18, 7 p.m.; July 20, 2 p.m. Contact information & Prices listed above.Alison Chase Performance, dance theater production com-pany, July 23, 7 p.m., Stonington Opera House. $5. 567-2788, www.operahousearts.org.Teen Summer Camp Produc-tion, “Little Shop of Horrors,” (musical), July 24 & 25, 7 p.m.; July 26, 2 & 7 p.m. $12 adults; $9 youth 12 & under).Ten Bucks Theatre, “Julius Cae-sar,” July 17,18,19,24,25&26, 6 p.m.; July 20 & 27, 4 p.m., Indian Trail Park, Brewer. $10. Bring blankets, folding chairs and a

picnic. 884-1030, www.tenbuck-stheatre.org.Penobscot Theatre Co. Youth Production, “Hairspray,” July 18-19 7 p.m.; July 20, 2 p.m., Bangor Opera House. Adults $12; children $8. 942-3333, www.penobscottheatre.org.

FilmsReel Pizza Cinerama, Bar Har-bor, 288-3811, www.reelpizza.net for schedule.“Belle,” July 17, 6 & 8:30 p.m.“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” July 17, 6 & 8:30 p.m.“22 Jump Street,” July 18-24, 6 & 8:30 p.m.Alamo Theatre, Bucksport, 469-0924, www.oldfi lm.org.“Side by Side,” July 24, 7:30 p.m.Knowlton Park, Ellsworth. Outdoor Movies,“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2,” July 17. “Frozen,” July 24. Movies begin at sunset. Bring lawn chairs/blanket, fl ashlight, insect repel-

lent. Weather permitting. Maine Coast Cinemas, Ells-worth, 667-3251 for schedule and times of movies.The Grand, Ellsworth, 667-9500, www.grandonline.org.“The White Rose,” fi lmmaker Peter Logue, followed by ques-tion and answer session.Village Green, Northeast Har-bor.“Night at the Museum,” July 17. “Charlotte’s Web,” July 24. Films are at sunset. Bring chairs/blanket. Inclement weather movie will be shown in the Mellon Room, Public Library.Stonington Opera House, 367-2788, www.operahousearts.org.“The Search for the White Rose,” featuring fi lmmaker Peter Logue screening and discussing his new fi lm. July 17, 7 p.m. “Jon Imber’s Left Hand,” the latest fi lm in the Maine Masters series, July 22, 6 & 8 p.m. Advance tickets recommended.

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